"The Holy Church has been forced to such a point?"
When I learned of the Holy Church's shameless act of stealing the credit for that battle, I wasn't angry at all. On the contrary, I was quite delighted.
Sometimes, being in the lead was synonymous with victory. As long as whoever was in the lead—for example, the Holy Church, which had a monopoly on over 80% of religion in Eich—didn't take extreme risks or make significant mistakes, it would be almost impossible for others to catch up to them.
It would be quite difficult for outside forces to significantly pressure a behemoth like the Holy Church. As long as they didn't have major internal strife and break into large, conflicting factions, they could probably remain in power for the next several centuries based on their foundation alone.
But this time the Holy Church made a mistake—a huge one.
